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contending with other birds. Two or three ot these birds will rout 

 a fiock of Bluc-bcUied Parrots, a genus which they are often engaged 

 with." 



92. Black-and-yellow Bee-eater (Merops phrygius. Lath.) — This is 

 the type of the beautiful "Mock Regent-Bird" or Warty-faced 

 Honey-eater. Latham states his description is taken from the 

 " drawings of Mr. Lambert." Watling's note under another drawing 

 (Xo. 03) of the same bird : — " About half the natural size. The light 

 tint round the eye is not plumage, but a kind of fleshy excrescence, 

 resembling in substance the gills of a cock or hen." 



I03 and 103. Slender-billed Creeper {Certhia tennirostris, Lath.) — 

 The type of the Spinebill. Watling's note : — " Natural size. This 

 bird lives on flies and honey. When ffying it makes a singular noise 

 as if the tips of its wings were beat together under the bird's belly. 

 It hovers over flowers, and extracts honey with its brush tongue." 



121 and 122. Black-eyed Thrush. — These are the co-types of the 

 beautiful Yellow-tufted Honey-eater, to which Latham has apparently 

 given two names — the first, Turdus melanops ; the second, Muscicapa 

 auricomis. 



1 2. 1.. Lunulated Thrush {Turdus lunulalus. Lath.! — Sharpc says : — 

 " It is a good figure of an Oreocichla. and is the type of 0. lunulata 

 (Lath.) According to Watling's note, it is of the 'natural size.' " 



T 34. Black-cheeked Warbler {Sylvia chrysops, Lath.) — Type of 

 the Yellow-faced Honey-eater {Piilotis chrysops). Watling's note : — 

 " Half the natural size. It has a brush tongue, and is a livelj- little 

 bird. It lives a good deal on honey." 



140. No. I, Black-breasted Flycatcher (Muscicapa pecioralis, Lath.) 



140. No. 2, Guttural Thrush {Turdus gutiuralis. Lath.)- — Watling's 

 note of the latter says : — " Natural size. The yellow is much brighter 

 than the bird supposed to be a female of No. i." Notwithstanding 

 this leading field observation of Watling's. Latham gave the two 

 drawings separate names. 



149. Black-browed Thrush {Turdus melanophrys, Lath.^ — This is 

 Ihe type of the Bell-Miner. Watling's note : — " The tongue is short 

 and very brushy. Native name, ' Dill-ring ' " — a strange coincidence 

 in name for a Bell-Bird. 



152. Sordid Thrush {Turdus sordidus, Lath.) — This figure is the 

 type of the Common Wood-Swallow. Watling's note ; — " Natural 

 size. Native name, ' Goo-le-bee.' " Here, again, we have a little 

 confusion in names, for Latham called a previous painting (No. 144), 

 representing the young of the Wood-Swallow, Turdus tenebrosus. 



154. Short-winged Thrush {Turdus brachypterus, Lath.) — The type 

 of the Bristle-Bird (Sphenura). Watling's note : — " Natural size. 

 This is a ground bird, with very small wings and very short flight." 



164. Black-lined Grosbeak {Loxia bellus, Lath.) — Type of the Fire- 

 tailed Finch. Watling says : — " Native name, " Wee-bong.' Natural 

 size. The only one yet seen. May." 



166. Temporal Finch {Friiigilla temporalis. Lath.) — This is the 

 well-known Red-browed Finch. Watling says : — " Native name, 

 ' Goo-lung-ag-ga.' It is a very common bird in New South Wales, 

 easih' domesticated, and of a lively disposition even in a cage, and 

 in a day or two it is easily reconciled."- 



